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<\/a><\/p>\nIts so rare to see a copper come out of the soil around here in a relatively unabused state, and my luck, the thing has a hideous hole right down the middle.\u00a0 Should have been a bust quarter, why wasn’t it?\u00a0 I figure for every 25 coppers you dig, you should get a bust quarter, right?\u00a0 Its just simple math — 25 cents is 25 cents.\u00a0 I’ve dug 82 coppers, so I’m owed 3 bust quarters.\u00a0 Of course, I’ve dug 2 2 reales (2 bits, as it were, which is actually what they were), so there goes 2 of them (Spanish silver circulated much more than American silver in those days), and coppers are easier to detect than silvers, due to the halo.\u00a0 So, I guess I’m on budget, especially since I also have a seated Q, and the copper era extended into the seated era.\u00a0 Did that make sense?\u00a0 it wasn’t supposed to, but it did, at least to me; the endless rationalization of missing the big fish once again and forevermore.<\/p>\n
So, I guess the next thing to blather about is that whatchamacallit on the right.\u00a0 That came in as a deep 12-37, which I figured could be an IH, or, even better, an exotic like a half dime oe 3 center.\u00a0 Problem was the pinpoint was big, and that rarely ends well.<\/p>\n
But, down about 6 inches, out comes this massive piece of iron, at least golf ball size.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 Deep iron never falses in the 37s, so I figure there’s more, and, of course, there always is.\u00a0 Pulled some small copper cruft, and a nail just below the iron, and there was still something there, and it was the whatchamacallit, about 8 inches deep, directly below the golf ball sized iron.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 Just shows how amazing the E-Trac is.<\/p>\n
Too bad it wasn’t something amazing.\u00a0 It it silver, tho, at least the outer part of it is.\u00a0 I have no idea what it is, but it seems to be a copper interior with a silver exterior.\u00a0 I’m not gonna say silver plated, cause after 200 years, that would have worn off.\u00a0 So, its some sort of 200 year old semi silver bling.\u00a0 Kinda cool, I guess.\u00a0 I imagine in those days, it was a big deal.\u00a0 Too bad its more or less garbage now.\u00a0 But here are a couple more views of it, by far the oldest silver (or semi-silver) bling I’ve ever found —<\/p>\n
So, that’s that.\u00a0 Sort of a pedestrian documenting of the hunts sort of entry.\u00a0 That’s what happens when you are not getting any, I suppose.\u00a0 The one more odd thing about today’s hunt to mention is that there are endless fields at the site, and I just felt a sort of contentment swinging aimlessly thru these fields hoping to randomly find something (scarily, I found a nice 1 reale this way in the past, so there is something to it, maybe).\u00a0 It could mean I’ll do more of these sorts of hunts going forward, we’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Never a good title.\u00a0 That means I’ve dug 21 straight wheaties without seeing a silver coin.\u00a0 I’m not sure if that is a record for me, but it might be.\u00a0 Whatever it is, it sucks.\u00a0 I hate wheaties, cause they … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n